by Bohumil Hrabal Hrabal write in the great Czech tradition of grotesque tales. The Pikkolo is such a typical character, who has always its own positive interpretation of the events…
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by Per Olov Enquist This is one of these books you would never read without recommendation. My recommendation was the series “Great Novels of the 20th Century” published by the…
by Herta Müller What a revelation for me! Until the Nobel Prize 2009, Herta Müller was not known to a wide audience, but always acclaimed by the critics. Atemschaukel describes…
by Irène Némirovsky After “Rummelplatz”, again a novel fragment. And again an unexpected discovery. Irène Nemirovsky couldn’t finish her work because she was deported t o a concentration camp in…
by Christa Wolf Prejudices stick – even if they were proven wrong. In my case here, Christa Wolf has the fame to be difficult to read and understand. But I…
by Juan Goytisolo Disturbing! That is what it is. Or mysterious? It reminded me to Italo Calvinos “Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht” where the book you read is the…
by Jorge Amado It is one of the milestones of Brazilian literature. Everybody in Brazil knows this girl Gabriela, even the illiterate. The book was adapted for television as a…
by Thomas Mann A book of paramount importance of one of the most important writes of all time in the German language. …. And I have read it only at…
by Salman Rushdie One of the most discussed books in the world and I do not know so many people who actually read it. For some reason I also avoided…
by Albert Camus That is the book he got the Nobel Prize for, Well deserved! The cover description – or any synopsis – cannot prepare you for the content. It…